Pentagon delivers Joe Biden a China nuclear weapons wake-up call

Published September 2, 2020 1:26pm ET



The Pentagon on Tuesday released its 2020 report on Military and Security Developments Involving the People’s Republic of China. Its examination of China’s rapidly evolving nuclear weapons strategy should serve as a wake-up call to Joe Biden.

Speaking last month, Biden pledged that he “will work to bring us closer to a world without nuclear weapons, so that the horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are never repeated.” Fine words. Unfortunately, fine words cannot alone provide for American security. Biden’s present nuclear weapons strategy, completely disconnected from the nuclear weapons activity of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping, reflects strategic delusion.

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